Website full of trolls, losers and low lives. The comments section on most of the videos consists of pearls of wisdom along the lines of "ure gay", "ure a retard" or "i hope u die in a fire". Then when you disable comments you get messages telling you you're a coward. Disabling comments isn't cowardly, it's perfectly sensible not to want to read the inane comments that these utter morons leave.

Luckily there's now an option of only receiving messages from people on your friend list. If you're uploading your first video I suggest you disable comments and only allow people on your friend list to contact you.

YouTube users also seem to like viewing videos of bands they don't like just so they can whinge about something. Look at a Pink Floyd video for instance and you'll see dozens of comments saying things like "Pink Floyd suck." OK then, p*ss off and watch another video and stop complaining you idiot.

Inside the mind of a typical YouTube user - "I hate your videos. I hate them so much I watched them all just so I could post moronic comments on all of them. I could have watched videos I actually like but I'm too much of a loser to do that. I'm also too much of a loser to make my own videos but I feel it's perfectly acceptable to criticise other peoples work. If you block me I'll make another five Id's just to harass you. I have all day to spend on my school computer making an idiot of myself. I have to do something to take my mind off the fact that I'm an insignificant prepubescent little child"

Fantastic website for viewing videos it is loved by all the world. Except Viacom they hate it for some reason....

Watch and enjoy the videos on youtube but remember, no matter how much you want to, NEVER read the comments people have made. Especially those on videos that have a political connection i.e. Iraq. It may start of as an informed discussion but the comments will soon boil down to 1 of 3 basic premises.
1. 'We won world war 2 you Hitler appeasing bastard'
2. 'I suppose you would rather Saddam Hussein was still in power'
3. 'Thats typical conservative/liberal distortion of facts'

All served up with a healthy dose of abuse and words like 'bitch' 'whiny' and for some reason 'faggot' seems to be a very popular word.

Seriously it can happen on the most innocent of videos such as one for Cat Stevens, a singer who converted to Islam (uh oh), and then changed his name to Yusef Islam. I think you can see how that one got off topic!

A great source of footage of just about everything you can imagine. Comment system is buggy at best. Copyright rules seem to be the only rules truly enforced. Reporting feature is a joke that can result in an email stating that your claim won't even be read because you MAY have clicked 'send' more than once. Finding out how to report a person is nigh impossible as well. You tube doesn't give a shit.

The place where terrorists can post videos of executions, a moron can tell <insert sub culture/race> that they should all die...
BUT, a video featuring a baby dancing to a Prince song gets pulled. It's all about the $$$ at youtube.

Youtube's policies are enforced strictly on what can make them the most money. Trolls and terrorists get the most hits, so Youtube's staff ignores them.